bug#15420: 24.3; Symbols like 🚴 (U+1F6B4) are not displayed by default

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Mike FABIAN <maiku.fabian@gmail.com> writes:

> After emacs -Q, try to load a file containing
>
> 🚲 U+1F6B2 BICYCLE
> 🚴 U+1F6B4 BICYCLIST
> 𓀀 U+13000 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH A001
>
> Glyhps for these characters are not displayed by default,
> even when fonts with these glyphs are installed.
>
> For example "Symbola" by George Douros (http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/)
> has 🚲 U+1F6B2 BICYCLE and 🚴 U+1F6B4 BICYCLIST and
> "Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs" from Google has 𓀀 U+13000 EGYPTIAN
> HIEROGLYPH A001.
>
> Instead boxes showing the codepoints are displayed.

(I'm going through old bug reports that have unfortunately gotten no
responses yet.)

I tried reproducing this in Emacs 27 (under Linux).  I installed the
Symbola fonts and started an Emacs, and it displayed the bicycle
characters without any problems, so I'm unable to reproduce this bug.

Are you still seeing it, or has it been fixed during the intervening
years?

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